The center is a collaboration among four area medical groups: Providence Everett Medical Center, The Everett Clinic, Western Washington Medical Group and Northwest Washington Radiation Oncology Associates.
Address: Corner of 13th Street and Wetmore Avenue in north Everett.
Scheduled to open: May 2007
Total floor space: 100,000 square feet with 62,000 feet of space for cancer treatment and 38,000 square feet of medical office space.
Cost: Overall, $70 million; $62.4 million from Providence Everett Medical Center for construction costs and equipment costs split among the other partners.
Parking garage: Four-story parking structure that can hold 489 cars.
Services: All cancer care, including radiation and chemotherapy, except for breast cancer patients. They will continue to be treated at the Comprehensive Breast Center, part of Providence Everett Medical Center’s Pacific Campus, 900 Pacific Ave.
First floor:
Central registration. People dropping off patients can proceed directly to the parking garage from this point.
Conference rooms for support groups, support services, such as social workers, behavioral health specialists, psychologist, chaplain, dietitian, clinical nurse specialists, massage therapy and a patient family library with cancer information. Regular talks will be given here on cancer-related topics.
Retail space to sell wigs for cancer patients, help with make up and office space for the American Cancer Society.
Second floor:
With $12 million in machinery, the most expensive floor in the building.
Radiation therapy (now conducted at the hospital’s Flynn Center). Floor space will grow from the current 7,000 square feet to 18,000 square feet for radiation treatment. Four linear accelerators for radiation treatment, twice the current number.
The average treatment time for radiation patients will be trimmed from the current 20 minutes to about 12 minutes in the new center.
It also will have computer imaging scanners and other diagnostic equipment to help detect tumors.
Third floor:
Chemotherapy and surgical cancer treatment.
Includes 24 chemotherapy treatment stations, including eight private rooms for those who are more debilitated. Chemotherapy recliners can be turned to face the Cascade Mountains.
Currently about 100 patients a day receive chemotherapy at three Everett-area medical groups. The new space will allow up to 300 patients a day to be treated.
Medical space for follow-up visits with physicians and medical oncologists and surgical oncologists.
A conference center for physicians to discuss a patient’s treatment options.
Cancer registry tracking all local cancer cases. Last year, Providence Everett Medical Center treated 1,200 cancer patients.
Access to a 4,800-square-foot roof garden, where friends and family can wait while a patient is being treated.
Floors 4 and 5:
19,000 square feet per floor of medical office space.
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